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Helping the nation spend wisely

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Remaining relevant to society:

The UK NAO’s continual evolution

Mark Burford, UK National Audit Office

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ISSAI 12 Principles 5 and 7

“Demonstrating ongoing relevance to citizens, Parliament

and other stakeholders

• Principle 5: Being responsive to changing environments

and emerging risks

• Principle 7: Being a credible source of independent and

objective insight and guidance to support beneficial

change in the public sector”

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Context – a changing audit landscape

Cash / accruals / IFRS transitions

Credit crunch / austerity Devolution

and localism

Gov Co’s and complex delivery chains

Digitisation of government

Brexit

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Context – a strategy to remain relevant

Remain relevant through:

• Clear strategy

• Re-structure for agile responses

• Enduring core values

• Practicing what we preach

• Investing in people and skills

• Measuring our performance

and impact

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Re-structuring

• Clusters based upon common issues across government

• Shared leadership and physical office space

• Increased communication, knowledge sharing and

collaboration

• Cluster work programme to help clients with similar

issues

• Higher quality of service and value to client

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NAO

CLUSTERS

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VALUES

THAT

ENDURE

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Practicing what we preach

• Fundamental review of audit process

• Focus on quality through proportionate, risk based audit

• Effort and skills focussed on highest risk and where can

add most value

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Practice what we preach

• Alignment to private sector where appropriate

• Use of partner firms at peak times

• Competitive tendering process

• Technology in audit

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People

• Empowerment

• Invest in skills and the way we work (see Transparency

Report)

• Change management

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Measuring performance and impact

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Performance and impact

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The future

• Government increasingly digital and online

• Reaching out to Parliament

• Brexit

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Questions